[OZAPRS] aprs.fi - fails to complete the task

[Damien Gardner Jnr]

Hrrm, you're not running some whacky 'firewall' like zonealarm or  
something which is blocking the ajax requests to fetch the station  
locations etc?

Cheers,

DG

Damien Gardner Jnr
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On 23/09/2009, at 9:10 PM, Terry Neumann wrote:

> I have a problem with aprs.fi.    This site seems to work OK with
> Firefox in my desktop Window$ XP machines and provides a very helpful
> amount of data besides the more basic and expected aprs functions.
>
> However on my now somewhat elderly HP NX500 laptop also running  
> Windoze
> XP with SP's up to date, it is a bit of a fizzer.   The site loads the
> page with the google map for the location of the station I want to  
> track
> (usually mine), but never gets around to actually painting the  
> location
> of the aprs station or the track.  The requested URL is (for example)
> http://aprs.fi/?call=vk5atn-12&mt=m&z=11&timerange=3600
> <http://aprs.fi/?call=vk5atn-12&mt=m&z=11&timerange=3600>  I've tried
> this with current versions of Firefox, Netscape and IE, all the same  
> as
> on my desktop machines, but always with same disappointing result.
>
> However on the same machine with the Ubuntu partition loaded and  
> Firefox
> running, the same URL brings up all of the detail I've come to expect
> from my desktop machines.   I'm not aware of any limitations in other
> Windows operations with this computer, just this specific URL.
>
> Any hints? Ideas?   (Yeah, yeah I know  - scrap Mickeysoft and use
> Ubuntu all the time! Unfortunately that's not an option until Linux
> versions of a couple of other Windows specific applications appear -  
> and
> I'm assured that won't happen).
>
> Thanks in advance,
> 73
> Terry
> VK5ATN
>
>
>
>
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